People in general have an infatuation with "bigger is better" or "more is better." To boot, I think that when most people think of buying a digital camera the first thing that comes to mind is that "the more megapixels the better the camera."
I happened upon this story on camera quality where a reporter took three identical pictures, one at 5 mp, one at 8, one at 13 and blew them up to 16" x 24" and went to Times Square in NYC and asked passers-by if they could tell the difference between the pictures. Out of dozens of people who stopped by ONLY ONE could tell which was the 13mp picture.
Next time I'm on deck to buy a digital camera I'm sticking with an around 5mp one. Why waste my money?
2 comments:
Dude ... a 7MP is really cheap nowadays ... why save $5? Just find one with good reviews and get it. I'm pretty happy w/ my Canon SD1000. cost me $150 with a 3 year warranty.
Yeah, my point wasn't that I would opt to save a few dollars, it was that I wouldn't necessarily buy a camera just because I wanted more megapixels. Why exactly would you get a 7mp vs. a 5mp camera, if the quality is not discernable? I wouldn't unless the 7mp camera had features that the 5mp didn't, but if the only difference would be 2 megapixels I wouldn't do it.
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